

Rebuild MBR to fix non-system disk error. And remember if TPM was enabled when everything went kaput, then good luck.Fix 1. These are elitebooks and the process should work for all of them. This process has been tested on 8440p and 8560p. The next time you hit the power button, you should get into the HP logo and viola, you are in business. The machine would again power automatically. Hit the power button again and the display would still be blank and it would automatically load the new bios. Once done, select exit and it would power down the machine. The key prompted for me was the F10 key to continue flashing. Use arrow keys to select Update, hit enter and it would automatically recognize the new. (enable hidden files if they are not visible.Ī) Create the following folder structure "Hewlett-Packard\BIOS\Current" at the rootī) Copy the files from step 9) into the Current folder.ġ6) Plug into the laptop whose bios is broken.ġ8) Hold down the windows + B (or V) key, hit the power key and let go all three.ġ9) If all goes well, the eRompaq.exe would run and with a highlighted Update/Exit menu. Extract efibios.sig and rom.bin.ĩ) Rename them to bios name, in this case they would become 68CCU.sig and 68CCU.bin.ġ1) Double click hpqFlash.exe from C:\SWSetup\ sp54348.ġ2) It would format the 1 GB usb drive and copy some files to its root.ġ3) In this case it would be 68CCU.BIN, config.sys, eRompaq.exe, glp2.txt and KERNEL.sys. In my case its C:\SWSetup\sp54348.ĭouble click the ROM.cab. In this case, it would be "sp54348".ħ) Double click and extract to any drive. Here is what I did and definitely wored for me.Ģ) Remove the battery, the hard disk and all other peripherals.Ĥ) Scale back the RAM as low as possible (I had 8 GB DDR3, I managed to get it working with 4 GB DDR3)ĥ) Find a 1 GB (I haven't tried with other sizes but 1 GB should suffice) USB drive.Ħ) On an alternative laptop, download the latest bios file. Business PCs, Workstations and Point of Sale Systems.Printer Wireless, Networking & Internet.


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